Student Term Support

Providing hands-on, practical support this programme helps you to adapt quickly to your study environment and enables you to make the most of your efforts throughout the term.

We will plan practical strategies for helping you to manage your academic course, while ensuring that you have guilt-free time to allow yourself to rest and play.

Having a balance of these activities is crucial to your sustained performance. We will help you to adjust this balance, so that your focus shifts appropriately, and your performance peaks at the point of your exams, or at other times when you need to be at your best.

Coaching And Mentoring Students

We offer individual coaching and mentoring sessions for students. These blend academic support, such as essay plans and planning for deadlines, with therapeutic and personal development support, such as stress management techniques and identifying your strengths and using them.

By broadening your insight into your personal resources, we can help you to develop resilience, to thrive and to enjoy yourself.

Regular mentoring targeting your strengths, will help you to develop useful skills that will aid you throughout your life.

International Students:

This group of students faces particular challenges fitting in to new surroundings and adapting at speed to new educational demands. The term-time coaching programme is particularly helpful in supporting them to transition well.

“We used many practical strategies that helped me enormously. For example, we often used to look at my diary for the following week and plan ahead how to fit in different activities that I valued, and especially my academic work.”

Cambridge University, Student 2013

“Liz helped me in so many ways, and I was so sad to say goodbye to her. The best thing is, though, that she has given me the tools to survive without help. I went straight…

“I used to think that trying to get help (for the big issues or for the small issues) was a sign of weakness, and was not for me. I am so glad that I asked…

“ It fills an obvious gap that is not purely about revision technique and is not counselling for emotional problems, but falls into the middle area of academic stress and worry that many students have…

I am delighted to write in support of Liz Parker. I have known Liz professionally for the last six years where we both worked with young people experiencing a first episode of psychotic illness in…

I worked with Liz Parker in for 6 years, between 2007 and 2013, in the award winning Cambridge community mental health team CAMEO. Liz is extremely professional, discrete, hard-working, reliable and trustworthy. She is highly…

“As a conscientious person I wanted to do more work as quickly as possible whilst making no errors at all. This resulted in a large amount of unnecessary strain, which actually hindered my effectiveness and…

Liz Parker currently works within CATS College in Cambridge and provides an independent Service to support some of our students. As the school College Nurse, I have referred a few students to Liz over the…

[caption id="attachment_497" align="alignnone" width="300"] Julian Davies, Principal of Abbey College Cambridge.[/caption] Liz Parker has worked with us in Abbey College Cambridge for an academic year and has proved a tremendous asset to the school and…